Picture of the Dry Spring instrument

This is a picture of the Dry Spring instrument. It is a 12″ piece of 1/4″ Sitka Spruce wood, with lots of things glued to the surface: tooth brush, rocks, comb, rubber strips, plastic, steel, cork, & glass. There is a contact microphone on the back side. For my latest piece, I recorded short samples of some of the sounds to use as percussion instruments, controlled by Csound.